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I was hoping to get a response to a question I have been attempting to figure out. I am wanting to use OJS for a course that I am working with in which we will handle around 300 papers per week going in and out. I will be using around 40 different reviewers, and each one of the reviewers will read up to 30 papers a week.

I want to know if there is a way around having to send emails to the reviewers once they are assigned? Currently, the editor sends the email and the reviewer clicks a link within it to then accept the review in the system. Is there a way to force the reviewer to accept it without them clicking a link? In my case the reviewers will be those who have no choice but to review what is assigned to them.

No harm in outlining it here in case other users find it useful. Just to confirm -- you'd like the process of assigning a reviewer to automatically notify them via email with the default email text etc. Is that correct?

Correct. I would like to know about that process so we can remove the need for an email to be sent and to remove the need for the reviewer to click the link to accept. I want for the reviewer to auto accept it when they are assigned to a review.

You'll want SubmissionEditHandler::selectReviewer to additionally kick off the logic in notifyReviewer after finishing.

Automatically accepting the review:

The code to mark a review as accepted is implemented in classes/submission/reviewer/ReviewerAction.inc.php in the confirmReview function (for the reviewer to activate). It's also implemented in classes/submission/sectionEditor/SectionEditorAction.inc.php in the confirmReviewForReviewer function (for the Section Editor to activate on the Reviewer's behalf). I'd suggest using the latter and kicking it off in the same process outlined above.

With that done, you'll also have to modify the reviewer's interface so that the "accept/reject" step isn't shown. To do this, modify pages/reviewer/ReviewerHandler.inc.php (the controller) and templates/reviewer/submission.tpl (the view).